Using the sayings of Christ as a framework, Ram Dass explains the principles of yoga. He shows how we limit ourselves in everyday life, and how meditation enables us to see ourselves without attachment, have compassion for ourselves and others, and see the world as it really is. - 1970 New Hampshire - One Audiotape

Alchemy is a metaphor for personal transformation. Metzner shows how it can be applied as a working, practical system. He introduces Actualism, a Western practice based on Agni Yoga - the yoga of fire - as a usable tool for channeling energy to dissolve blocks in consciousness, thereby enacting alchemical transformation. This is the symbolism and the mythology of bringing fire to earth - the Prometheus myth - the myth of the light-bringer, the fire-bringer that you find in every culture. - 1978 Esalen - One Audiotape

"In Asia, whenever discussions of the spiritual quest becomes serious, two questions come out: `Who is your teacher?' and `What is your practice?'" In a talk based on these questions, Smith provides personal, concrete details about Zen, Yoga, Hinduism and Tantra, and how these relate to Western experience. - 1971 Esalen - Three Audiotapes

The Greens discuss their research with biofeedback, which is a method of vuluntarily controlling involuntarily bodily processes. They also describe their work with Swami Rama, a yogi who can coluntarily stop his heart beat, and the implications for all of this ability. - 1972 San Francisco - Two Audiotapes

Green presents data on his psycho-psysiological research in which Swami Rama demonstrates his ability to control various involuntary processes of his body and nervous system. The Swami then translates Eastern Chakra and psychic nerve control into useful exercises. - 1970 Miami - One Audiotape

Leonard with Murphy, co-founder of Esalen, present a"growing body of evidence that modes of sensing exist that are generally not acknowledged in our culture. We believe that our capacities in areas ranging from what we term normal to what we term metanormal are vastly greater than commonly assumed, and that by cultivating them we can enrich our lives." - - One BOOK